Associations of obesity and asthma with functional exercise capacity in urban minority adolescents.

abstract：:Ten infants with evidence of impending respiratory failure from severe bronchiolitis were successfully treated with continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) with double nasal prongs. Their mean (SD) age was 6.7 (3.8) months and mean (SD) body weight was 7.1 (2.1) kg. Respiratory assessments were made immediately be...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Soong WJ,Hwang B,Tang RB

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis carries a high risk of mortality in very young infants. The mechanism of refractory cardio-respiratory failure is complex and not clearly delineated. We aimed to examine the clinico-pathological features and suggest how they may be related to outcome, by multi-center review of clinical records and post-morte...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Sawal M,Cohen M,Irazuzta JE,Kumar R,Kirton C,Brundler MA,Evans CA,Wilson JA,Raffeeq P,Azaz A,Rotta AT,Vora A,Vohra A,Abboud P,Mirkin LD,Cooper M,Dishop MK,Graf JM,Petros A,Klonin H

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background The prevalence of respiratory-technology dependent children is increasing although for most children the goal is liberation from technology. Liberation from home mechanical ventilation (HMV) and decannulation strategies vary due to the lack of clinical practice standards. The primary objective of this study...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Bashir A,Henningfeld JK,Thompson NE,D'Andrea LA

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16-year-old female with cystic fibrosis (CF) presented with an acute respiratory exacerbation during which black flecks were observed in the spontaneously expectorated sputum. The production of this pigmented sputum was subsequently attributed to Exophiala dermatitidis hyphae. Treatment with antibiotics, corticoster...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Griffard EA,Guajardo JR,Cooperstock MS,Scoville CL

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine a possible association between birth season (date of birth) and future development of asthma in children. A case-control study was designed to include asthmatic children aged 2-7 years, living in the city of Beer-Sheva, in southern Israel, registered in one pediatric center. Contro...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Gazala E,Ron-Feldman V,Alterman M,Kama S,Novack L

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Data on central sleep apnea (CSA) and its significance in children are limited. Our objectives were to describe the polysomnogram (PSG) characteristics and clinical features of children with significant CSA at a single pediatric sleep center. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:A retrospective chart review of children...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Kritzinger FE,Al-Saleh S,Narang I

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the neurodevelopmental and temperamental outcome of infants who suffered an idiopathic apparent life-threatening event (IALTE) and their mothers' perceptions of such an event, and to compare such infants with a matched group of babies hospitalized for nonthreatening events....

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Tirosh E,Kessel A,Jaffe M,Cohen A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Telomere length is associated with poorer lung health in older adults, possibly from cumulative risk factor exposure, but data are lacking in pediatric and population-based cohorts. We examined associations of telomere length with lung function in children and mid-life adults. METHODS:Data were drawn from a ...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Nguyen MT,Saffery R,Burgner D,Lycett K,Vryer R,Grobler A,Dwyer T,Ranganathan S,Wake M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokines tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), interleukin-8 (IL-8), and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) have important roles in regulating neutrophil migration and the inflammatory response. To determine whether the concentration of these cytokines and soluble ICAM-1 (sICAM-1) in sputum was increas...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Salva PS,Doyle NA,Graham L,Eigen H,Doerschuk CM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We herein report a case of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) primarily presenting with asthma-like symptoms that had been misdiagnosed as severe asthma. Patients presenting with severe asthma symptoms along with systemic thrombosis should be systematically evaluated for APS. ...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Veskitkul J,Ruangchira-urai R,Charuvanij S,Pongtanakul B,Udomittipong K,Vichyanond P

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients have greatly increased in prevalence in the past two decades and may lead to a more rapid rate of lung function decline. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of a MRSA eradication protocol on long...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Belarski E,Pettit R

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To review 15-year trends in respiratory care of extremely preterm infants managed in a tertiary perinatal center; to identify the factors contributing to their evolution; and to determine whether these changes had an impact on infant mortality, severe morbidity, and growth. METHODS:Retrospective cohort stud...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Habas F,Durand S,Milési C,Mesnage R,Combes C,Gavotto A,Picaud JC,Cambonie G

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental tobacco smoke, also called passive smoking, was shown to have adverse effects on the health of children. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is proposed as a sensitive marker of oxidative injury and inflammatory processes in the airways, being increased in adult active cigarette smokers. We tested whether passive s...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Doniec Z,Nowak D,Tomalak W,Pisiewicz K,Kurzawa R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocyte apoptosis is implicated in the pathophysiology of acute inflammatory lung injuries in newborns and adults. Pulmonary angiotensin (ANG) II contributes to lung epithelial apoptosis in vitro, but its role in acute lung injury in vivo is unclear. We therefore studied the effects of ANG II receptor action on the...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Lukkarinen HP,Laine J,Aho H,Zagariya A,Vidyasagar D,Kääpä PO

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten children with mild bronchial asthma underwent bronchial challenge with carbachol on three consecutive days; using a double-blind technique, they were given inhaled saline placebo on the first day and placebo or sodium cromoglycate (SCG) on the second and third days 15 min prior to the bronchial provocation test wi...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Barbato A,Pisetta F,Mesirca P,Ragusa A,Zacchello F

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure, distribution, and frequency of neuroendocrine (NE) cells in human fetal lung from early stages of development to term are described. Neuroendocrine cells were studied by electron microscopy and immunostaining for serotonin and bombesin, recently identified markers of these cells in human lung. The diffe...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Cutz E,Gillan JE,Bryan AC

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal cigarette smoke (CS) exposure, in combination with hypoxia and/or hyperthermia can lead to gasping and attenuated recovery from hypoxia in 7 days old rat pups. We studied 95 unanesthetized spontaneously breathing 14 days old rat pups to investigate if the destabilizing effects of increased ambient temperature...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Pendlebury JD,Yusuf K,Bano S,Lumb KJ,Schneider JM,Hasan SU

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple breath washout (MBW) in infants presents a number of technical challenges. Conventional MBW is based on simultaneous measurement of flow and gas concentrations. These two signals are aligned and combined to derive expired gas volumes from which lung volumes and measures of ventilation inhomogeneity ...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Shawcross A,Murray CS,Goddard N,Gupta R,Watson S,Horsley A

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The main goal of the study was to assess possible association between transplacental exposure to genotoxic PAH compounds assessed by the cord blood PAH-DNA adducts and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) measured in healthy non-asthmatic children at the age of 7 years. The subjects included the subsample ...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Jedrychowski W,Maugeri U,Mroz E,Flak E,Rembiasz M,Jacek R,Sowa A

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumatoceles and bronchiectasis are secondary complications of respiratory infections in patients with hyper IgE syndrome (HIgES). We report on a patient with HIgES and recurrent pneumonias since 1 year of age, with progression to pneumatoceles and bronchiectasis and fatal outcome, with disseminated infection and sus...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Roxo P Jr,Torres LA,Menezes UP,Melo JM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung diseases caused by surfactant protein C (SFTPC) mutations are inherited as autosomal traits with variable penetrance and severity or as sporadic disease caused by a de novo mutation on one allele. Here, we report the case of a child surviving with a homozygous surfactant protein C mutation after aggressive clinic...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Arıkan-Ayyıldız Z,Caglayan-Sozmen S,Isık S,Deterding R,Dishop MK,Couderc R,Epaud R,Louha M,Uzuner N

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The collection of sputum for microbiological examination in young cystic fibrosis patients can be very difficult. However, a knowledge of bacterial flora colonizing the patient's airways is of paramount importance for proper antimicrobial therapy. It is also known that cystic fibrosis patients colonized by Pseudomonas...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Vogelberg C,Hirsch T,Rösen-Wolff A,Kerkmann ML,Leupold W

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway obstruction in children is a rare, but difficult clinical problem, with no clear agreement on optimal therapeutic approach. Stenting of the airway has been used successfully in adults, and is an attractive alternative in children. Fundamental differences of pediatric compared to adult use include the benign nat...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Nicolai T

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) and interferon-inducible protein of 10 kDa (IP-10) are potent inflammatory mediators and contribute to acute lung injury in adults. Recently, a potential role for IFN-γ and IP-10 in the pathogenesis of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) has been reported in animal models. OBJECTIVE:To...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Aghai ZH,Saslow JG,Mody K,Eydelman R,Bhat V,Stahl G,Pyon K,Bhandari V

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimal duration of therapy for acute exacerbations of cystic fibrosis (CF) has not been defined, and the utility of serial pulmonary function testing in predicting the duration of therapy has yet to be established. In a review of 90 pulmonary exacerbations of 39 patients with CF requiring hospitalization, we foun...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Rosenberg SM,Schramm CM

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhaled corticosteroids are commonly used in cystic fibrosis (CF), but there are few studies evaluating their safety in young children. We, therefore, prospectively administered beclomethasone diproprionate (BDP) to 12 clinically stable young children with CF to examine the safety of this therapy with respect to adren...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Wojtczak HA,Kerby GS,Wagener JS,Copenhaver SC,Gotlin RW,Riches DW,Accurso FJ

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to its effect on airway smooth muscle in the adult, in vitro studies have shown that caffeine significantly increases active tension in airway smooth muscle in the neonatal lamb. To determine if caffeine has a physiological effect on airway function during early development, we studied the effect of caffei...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Keklikian EN,Wolfson MR,Shaffer TH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence and morbidity of asthma are growing problems that appear to affect urban populations and particularly impoverished centers disproportionately. Poor children are more likely to be hospitalized for asthma than nonpoor children, and are more likely to experience clinical and social dysfunction due to asthm...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Shapiro GG,Stout JW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to examine the characteristics of preterm and full-term infants < or = 6 weeks old that influence the success of obtaining sufficient sweat for diagnosis of CF, and corresponding sweat chloride concentrations. A retrospective chart review of 119 sweat tests was performed on 103 preterm and full-term ...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Eng W,LeGrys VA,Schechter MS,Laughon MM,Barker PM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) plasma levels correlate with C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations and they are both increased in adults with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). No studies have evaluated MMP-9 levels in children with sleep apnea and CRP is not consistently elevated in pediatric OSA. The aim ...

journal_title：Pediatric pulmonology

authors： Kaditis AG,Alexopoulos EI,Karathanasi A,Ntamagka G,Oikonomidi S,Kiropoulos TS,Zintzaras E,Gourgoulianis K

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00